Amy Coleman, EVP and Chief People Officer, shared the following communication with employees today. When I stepped into this role, I promised to communicate more openly with you and share the “why” behind our decisions. Today we are eliminating around 4,800 roles, about 2.1% of our global workforce, as we focus our people, investments, and……
The pace of AI adoption is moving incredibly fast. Customers have moved well beyond experimentation and understand the importance of adopting AI to transform their business. They are now concentrating on delivering measurable business outcomes and demonstrating a return on their AI investments, while ensuring their intelligence is amplified and their IP is protected. Today……
As demand for cloud and AI services continues to grow, datacenters are becoming more essential than ever. Communities also want to better understand how this infrastructure affects local resources, particularly water. At Microsoft, water stewardship has been a priority since our first datacenter builds in the early 2000s and remains a core part of our……
Cloud operations are entering a new era as AI-driven and autonomous agents become a larger part of modern software systems. As software becomes increasingly agentic, the challenge is no longer just managing greater scale and complexity. Operators must also contend with systems that evolve faster, act more autonomously and interact across an expanding network of……